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du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival, Toronto
by Jerry D'Souza
Jazz in its varied permutations, the blues and world music all came together at the 15th du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival in Toronto. This mix has been coming into the festival for some time now, for better or for worse. For better because it brings in an audience and for worse because some of that audience ...
Le Festival International De Jazz De Montreal 2001 Part 1-2
by AAJ Staff
Submitted on behalf of Tom Terrell A nice cat manning the Festival's airport kiosk name of Nicola got me a ride into town. I got the VIP treatment at the Hotel Wyndham Montreal, met old friends in the press room (Claudia, Natalie, Katia, Alain), new faces (Sophie, Myriam) and the estimable Andre Menard (Premier VP and ...
Montreal Jazz Festival 2001
by A. Henkin
Jazz festivals can be an exercise in anticipation: Look forward to the first show, then the next, then the one after and then the festival ends. The hectic schedule means one concert is barely over by the time you are scrambling to find your seat at the next.The Montreal Jazz Festival alleviates this difficulty in ...
Chick Corea @ Montreal Jazz Festival
by Matthew S. Robinson
Armed with a piano and percussion set, the 2002 Miles Davis Award winner opened with a song for his father and then took the packed hall on a tribute trip through much of the rest of storied musical family. “Armando's Rhumba" began with tribal thunder on the toms, but quickly switched to a playfully vibe-y piano, ...
Classic Queen
by Matthew S. Robinson
Introducing each selection as if it were part of a true classical programme, former Jethro Tull key man David Palmer flayed and flitted around the conductor’s stand as members of the orchestra, chorus and singers like Natalie Choquette, Marie-Denise Pelletier and Luck Mervil laboured through a worthy concept run amok. Singing well-known songs as if reading ...
Remy Shand @ Quebec Summer Fest
by Matthew S. Robinson
As hundreds of blinking red diodes from Quebec Summer Fest access buttons lit up the field, Manitoba’s favorite soul man (soul boy?) ambled on stage and took his place behind his double racks of various keyboards and synths for an evening of youthful energy and experienced musical wisdom. From the repetitive warm-up groove of “Me and ...
Our Man in Montreal: The 23rd Montreal International Jazz Festival (Part 1-2)
by Phil DiPietro
Oh, sweet, hot, humid July--if Frank Constanza were a jazzhead he would have dubbed it the real month of “Festivus" the month of the International Jazz Fest. Mind-boggling possibilities abound for running up the credit card bill in such far-flung locales as Bracknell, Northsea, Paris, Nice, Viennes, Marseille, Toulon, Umbria and Montreaux. Let's see, which one ...
Our Man in Montreal: The 23rd Montreal International Jazz Festival (Part 2-2)
by Phil DiPietro
So, upon rising we took in a couple of Montreal’s more famous tourist attractions ( the Biodome , and the botanical gardens ). Now, rare is it that the wife and I get to spend time together without child, but tonight was the night. The usual activity when such opportunity arises is restaurants. The rarer “date ...
Borah Bergman & Thomas Chapin: Toronto 1997: A Suite for Thomas Chapin
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Death creeps upon us all. Thomas Chapin knew that rather well when in 1997 he appeared at Toronto's Du Maurier Downtown Jazz Festival with Borah Bergman. Dying on stage of leukemia, Chapin exhaled massively fractious and powerful liveliness from reeds and flute nonetheless. There are numerous struggles, limitations and even some clear misses in his performance; ...
Alive: Michael Brecker in Vancouver
by Gregory J. Robb
“Thank you for being here.” It was a lone voice in a lone moment but, considering the circumstance, the fan unwittingly summed up Michael Brecker’s concert in Vancouver on December 10. If this Michael Brecker was jet-lagged (“you have no idea...”), one would be frightened to watch him work out. The Michael Brecker Quintet woke ...
